Few people embody more of the essence of TV Cream than Rolf Harris, and few things embody more of the jet-setting glitter-bound...
It really is a long time now since what were, arguably, the National Lottery’s glory years on TV. Here’s the draw in...
This month’s edition of the TV Cream Update, due to be sent out from the site this weekend, boasts as its main...
…it’s just a test post.
As mentioned the last Digi-Cream Times (the last proper one), Big Ben has been silenced for some repairs meaning Radio 4 has...
A real loss. And only a few weeks after being mooted as a writer for the next series of Dr Who. (Mooted...
Here’s a particulary notorious breed, known for its distinctive bellowing, dopey expression, ponderous countenance and advanced stupidity. Standing next to it is...
Here’s a cheery thing: the scariest opening titles ever shown on television, courtesy of Once Upon A Time…Man. Perhaps realising the complete...
Friday’s edition of The Now Show on Radio 4 was blessed, and that is the right word, by an appearance from none...
Erstwhile regional nabob, music hobbledehoy and professional Phil Redmond-hater. Here’s the man, in his occasional ‘Anthony H Wilson’ guise, in fine form...
Here’s the Mighty Atom in superb spirits and full-on “Brucie” mode, to wit: a) terrifying limb-wiggling and prancing; b) topical gags, in...
To mark the man’s (inevitable) return to football presentation… 1) Des hooks up with Henry Kelly and the actor T.P. McKenna for...
It’s TV Cream’s 10th birthday this month, and as part of the commemorations it’s chastening to take a look back at another...
It’s 5th February 1989, and gathered for the first day of term at Isleworth are Uncle Rupert along along with Andrew Neil,...
Recent speculation concerning the future of Dr Who, both the identity of its lead and that of the person to take over...
…what exactly? When Neighbours defects to Channel Five, just what kind of programme will inherit that all-important pre-news teatime berth? There’s been...
Giving it the lobster no more.
The spirit of Channel 4’s late 80s/early 90s on-the-hoof marvel As It Happens has been reborn in the unlikely guise of BBC...
It’s May 1988, and the Beeb decide to publicise their new computerised forward-looking high-tech weather maps…by dressing their forecasters up in the...
SONG: NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS DEFINITION: Paul goes to Hollywood. Well, Cricklewood. THINGS TO KNOW: a) This was the smash hit single...
You can’t keep a good phone-in down. “We’re going to bring Popmaster back,” announced Ken Bruce on air this morning. “We’re not...
Can it really only be 10 not-long-enough years since Learner Driver From Hell Maureen Rees gave masterclasses in car maintenance as part...
In last week’s TV Cream Times my colleague Steve wondered whether the characters of Malcolm and Jamie in The Thick Of It...
One of the many things to fall by the wayside along with badly-printed jagged-edged Radio Times pages and Ice Magic have been...
A big gossip columnist of the 20th century, and an even bigger gossip columnist of the…ah.
David Pascoe has written in with a pertinent cutting. “Saw this in the Falmouth Packet a few weeks back,” he explains, “and...
In the spring of 2004, TV Cream compiled its own version of the Media Guardian’s annual Movers And Shakers list. Except it...
Opening yesterday’s Live Earth concert in London, Genesis greeted the thousands of fans in Wembley stadium and the tens of thousands watching...
Last Saturday’s episode of Jekyll found our hero(es) taking a short train journey – but doing so in a carriage more suited...
This is from 1987, when George did a turn on Yorkshire TV’s anniversary special The Birthday Show (at 7pm on a Saturday...
Radio 4 has been endlessly running the same trailer for its When John Met Paul effort. That’s a different When John Met...
This could well be the single finest Top Of The Pops turn of all time: the Pet Shop Boys doing ‘Can You...
An especially potent piece of television, this, what with an appearance from the ubiquitous Pain family (“four internationally known celebrities,” cracks Noel)...
A moment’s pause to recall an age when, rather than seeking to assemble a government of “all the talents”, a Prime Minister...
Petulant to the last, Michael “Mike” Parkinson has decided that, “after 25 years of doing my talk show”, he’s had enough. Nice...
“Steadily, triumphantly, all our favourites have returned in the rejuvenated time travels,” booms Radio Times of Dr Who. “Cybermen, Daleks, Macra…” Come...
There was a great bit on this morning’s Today programme when, as part of their coverage from the Glastonbury Festival, the lead...
The saviours of daytime radio, c. 1993.
A few retrospective comments from some good folk. “I thought,” emails one anonymous reader, “I’d dreamt the bit about Sarah Kennedy’s scotch...
And so… BEST RECORD: The very first one, ‘This Charming Man’. A close second was the new single by Crowded House, ‘Don’t...
Five years ago, the Digi-Cream Times (or Radio Cream Times as it was then called) devoted several editions to ripping off something...
“…I was listening to the news.” Obviously. The current profusion of anniversaries and turning points and do-you-recall-what-you-were-doing-when archivery is all very well,...
From guest contributor David Pascoe… SONG: BIG BARN BED DEFINITION: Meet the band! THINGS TO KNOW: a) It was the opening track...
The sometime Footlights stalwart, professional friend of John Cleese, creator of Week Ending, producer of Just A Minute and I’m Sorry I...
This time next week a rather special, erm, “event” should have just finished on this blog, and as such, absolutely nothing of...
On the set of Double Your Money in 1966. What a dilemma: ‘Ballet’ or ‘Bible’?
Everyone’s talking about them: Graham Norton, Steven Moffat (writer of “the scariest Dr Who episode ever – since the last one I...
It’s taken roughly five months, but here we are: the entry about nothing. More precisely, the entry about search referrals. Never before...
Of all the guest hosts to stand in for Wogan during his thrice-weekly residency on the verdant Shepherd’s Bush Green, one of...
More information about the conclusion to the present series of Dr Who has emerged. It appears that just before Martha is taken...
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